Brian De Camp

Brian De Camp is a private pilot and junior at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida, majoring in Aviation Business Administration. Born in Fremont, California, he has been in love with aviation since he was nine years old. At the age of 15, he began taking flying lessons and received a private pilot license during his first semester in college. After graduation, he hopes to fly for the California Air National Guard and, eventually, open his own business. Until then, he is splitting his time between Florida and California and plans to begin training for his instrument rating.

I started out as a boy who was scared to death of flying and ended up falling in love with it while going to see a sick grandfather who, coincidentally, had once been a private pilot and aircraft mechanic in the Navy. There are many names for such instances of luck and happenstance: fate, destiny, whatever you want to call it. The word that happens to come to my mind is serendipity.

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